Porpoising -ꦦ a phenomenon that was a common occurrence in F1 dur✤ing the previous ground effect era - has become one of the dominant talking points of the first pre-season test, having caused a headache for several teams at Barcelona. 

With F1’s new generation of cars seeing ꧒a return to a ground effect philosophy, several cars have suffered with the issue over the opening two days of running at the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. 

Cars have been spotted bouncing up and down on their suspension after reaching high speed on the straights, resulting in a loss of downforce and presenting a potential problem for the driversꩵ through the fastest corners. 

Mercedes and Alpine were visibly effected on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, but almost all of the teams appear to be struggling with their cars boun🔴cing.&🐼nbsp;

Ferrari team principal Binotto believes most of the team’s📖 did not anticipate porpoising becoming an issue when developing thei♐r cars on the wind tunnel. 

“When you're setting these cars up with the ground [effect] floor, the situation it's different. It's a le𝓀arning process.”

While Binotto thinks a fix “can be quite straightforward”, he thinks teams who get 🦹a handle on the problem the earliest will have an advantage at the start of the season. 

“Optimising the perfo𝄹rmance, because it should not be a compromise, you should try to aꦍvoid the bouncing by getting the most of the performance of the car,” he explained. 

"That could be a less ea💯sy exercise. I am pretty sure that at some stage the team will get to the solution.

“How long it will take?🗹 The ones that will get there sooner will have an advantage at the start of the season.”

That view was echoed by Alfa Romeo team principal Frederi🤪c Vasseur, who revealed his side’s C42 challenger was also suffering from the ef🍌fects of porpoising. 

“Some elements are not easy to duplicate in the windtunnel or the simul🌄ator, and we are all facing the same issue,” he said. 

“To fix the problem is not the🧸 biggest issue, but the🌺n to be efficient will be the key. 

“How quicklyဣ the team will react will the key for the first races. I’m sure that in three or four even𝄹ts, we won’t speak anymore about bouncing but today it’s the question.”